Fennux News

For the longest time people have been more-or-less pushed into the world of “pure breeding”. The main reason behind this has to do with “uptiering” (going from T4 to T5), as everyone wants to get the newest Fennux coats. So we decided to implement a couple of perks to make it so pure breeding was not the “only way to breed”.

The first fact I’d like to point out is that pure breeding has not been touched, it still works exactly as you expect it to. A lot of people like doing it because it can guarantee your breeding outcomes to be exactly what you want or better. If you breed pure T5 Western together, you’re going to get a pure T5 Western OR maybe even a T6 Western which is considered better by the masses. Nothing changes in regards to pure breeding.

You can, if you’d like, switch things up a bit with “Mixed Breeding”, making sure the Male and the Female you pair together have different regions, with mixed trees all throughout the background. The more random your trees are, the better.

If you try out mixed breeding, you will not be penalized by any means! In fact you will simply experience randomness. You will find that your breeding outcomes (offspring) are not low tier levels, and are not guaranteed to be the same thing by any means. You will also find that every so often random things can occur, such as the Fantasy Region showing up as offspring, seemingly out of nowhere. Keep in mind it is not currently possible to uptier while mixed breeding.

Long story short, we are trying to make sure people know that Fennux is not only a “breed for purity” breedable. A lot of people get bored by that, and would prefer the slightly random lifestyle of Mixed Breeding. We want everyone out there to know you can literally try breeding however you want – we want Fennux to be enjoyable for everyone.

First of all – this new feature is very beta, prone to having bugs, and will not always be moderated.

We WILL delete suggestions that have any sort of profanity and such (PG), and we will delete suggestions that do not offer anything to the Fennux Community. We are looking for good ideas that will help to solve problems.

Feel free to make a short/to the point suggestion on the following page, but make sure you are okay with literally hundreds if not thousands of people viewing your suggestion. Your name will clearly be next to your suggestion as well. This is not anonymous.

You can come back every 24 hours and vote UP or DOWN on each suggestion. This means in the course of a week you could vote 7 times on every single suggestion submitted.

The Red Down Arrow Button means VOTE DOWN -1, and the Red Green Arrow Button means VOTE UP +1. The higher voted suggestions show up at the top, and the lower voted suggestions show up at the bottom. Team Fennux will look at all suggestions, but we will try to prioritize the higher voted ones just in case. Please do not beg people to vote on your submission, this isn’t a popularity contest – we want honest opinions from our community.

Trust me when I say this is not the best method of doing this, but it’s still a very valuable tool for us to peer into the community in a very transparent manner – it allows everyone to be on the same page regarding community feedback, so we’re getting this feature out into the wild without wasting time refining it.

NOTE: You will have to be logged in to My Fennux to be able to suggest ideas / vote / etc. I highly recommend logging in before clicking the above link to the Suggestions page.

So over the past month – Katharine, Dash and Daemon have been working on a special project to present to the Fennux Community. It took a bit longer than expected but we’re proud to show off the COMPLETELY FREE, Fennux Previewer!

This is a 1-Prim (1 Land Impact), Mesh Sign, that will display ANY Fennux or Den’s 2D Image. Think of it like the Fennux.com/ID pages we have, where you can preview what a den looks like.

Not only that – we also have built in a genetic history tree into the sign. After a fennux is loaded on the sign, you can touch the sign to see it’s parents, grandparents and great grandparents.

As I said before, it’s a completely free sign system! It will display the Region, Tier, Gender, Size and Aggression via text – all of the other attributes are able to be seen on the actual 2D Fennux itself. If you don’t know what something is – you can always look at the website, but seasoned breeders know the difference between lime / gold eyes, or bandit / foxy.

The Fennux Previewer is available at the Official Fennux Sim, right by our landing point. We also keep it in the vendors area of our sim as well. It costs L$1 but it will refund you L$1 right away. Get it here!

Please read the notecard inside to fully understand how to use the sign, and definitely check out the tutorial video here: Previewer Tutorial Video

If you have any questions about the sign, you can try asking the chat, or submitting a ticket. Keep in mind though, this is a completely free offering – we will NOT be adding the titles for every little trait, coat name, etc – we did it this way because it’s easy for us to release completely for free.

3) It will ask you to confirm (YES or NO), pressing YES will drop all 12 Dens into the Well

4) An Inventory Offer will present itself to you, press KEEP to get your Chickadot LE Den, at this time you also will receive 12 Days (48 Kibbles) of Reserve Food, which is visible on your HUD instantly

And that’s all there is to it! Enjoy your Chickadot LE Fennux Den, and your 12 Days of Reserve Food!

WHERE DO I GET MY CHICKADOT LE FENNUX?

The Wishing Well exists only on the Fennux Sim. We have 1 setup next to every Crafting Machine, and of course these Wishing Wells are used to turn any 12 Fennux Dens into 1 Chickadot LE Den (and 12 days of Reserve Food).

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Yes there is a SMALL CHANCE to get “LE Mellow Eyes”, but the odds are roughly about a 0.5% chance to obtain, so don’t expect to get them! The LE Mellow Eyes can pass onto other coats, so even if you don’t get them from Wishing, you will have opportunities to obtain them in the Secondary Market later.

Most Fennux however will have regular eyes from a starter den, very similar to Crafting – the only thing that is “LE” on most Chickadot LE Fennux is the over-ride of the Fennux Coat. It’s more-or-less exactly like Crafting, except for the fact the coat will not pass.

Please grab it as fast as you can, and let everyone you know (who you feel would love this sort of freebie) about it as well. We want to make this one of the most popular items on Marketplace ever, and we cannot do that without your support.

(NOTE: if you link to a friend, link to this fennux news post NOT the marketplace link, too many MP scams these days.)

Congratulations to Doctor Adagio for winning the Create-a-Coat Contest! Doctor Adagio will be receiving L$5,000 in-world, as well as an “8 for 4 Weeks Kibbles”, an Eternal Pet Crystal, and a Scorchy LE Den with a few random traits on it.

We also had 3 Runner Ups! In no particular order: Czarnia Vintner, Six Sahara, krystajcf2u Resident are all winners of L$500, “4 for 4 Weeks Kibbles” as well as an Eternal Pet Crystal!

There were also 36 other entrants – each and every one of them will be receiving an Eternal Pet Crystal! There were lots of great ideas submitted, so we thank each and every one of you for entering. There’s bound to be another one of these contests later on – so check back in often with our news page.

If you submitted an entry, please look under the “Objects” folder of your “Second Life Inventory”, you should see the Fennux Eternal Pet Crystal delivered there. We will have sent all of these out by August 1, 2014 @ 1:00AM SLT.

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The August 2014 “Scorchy” Limited Edition Fennux Coat is here!

NOTE: THE LE IGNIS EYES ARE VERY RARE, DO NOT EXPECT TO GET THEM, BUT IF YOU DO GET THEM – CONGRATULATIONS!

WISHING WELL INFORMATION…

To find out more about how the Wishing Well system works, you can watch our informative video tutorial at the following page: Fennux Wishing Well Tutorial

Users can turn their extra Dens (12) into 1 Scorchy LE Fennux & 12 Days of Reserve Food by doing the following:

3) It will ask you to confirm (YES or NO), pressing YES will drop all 12 Dens into the Well

4) An Inventory Offer will present itself to you, press KEEP to get your Scorchy LE Den, at this time you also will receive 12 Days (48 Kibbles) of Reserve Food, which is visible on your HUD instantly

And that’s all there is to it! Enjoy your Scorchy LE Fennux Den, and your 12 Days of Reserve Food!

WHERE DO I GET MY SCORCHY LE FENNUX?

The Wishing Well exists only on the Fennux Sim. We have 1 setup next to every Crafting Machine, and of course these Wishing Wells are used to turn any 12 Fennux Dens into 1 Scorchy LE Den (and 12 days of Reserve Food).

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Yes there is a SMALL CHANCE to get “LE Ignis Eyes”, but the odds are roughly about a 0.5% chance to obtain, so don’t expect to get them! The LE Ignis Eyes can pass onto other coats, so even if you don’t get them from Wishing, you will have opportunities to obtain them in the Secondary Market later.

Most Fennux however will have regular eyes from a starter den, very similar to Crafting – the only thing that is “LE” on most Inferno LE Fennux is the over-ride of the Fennux Coat. It’s more-or-less exactly like Crafting, except for the fact the coat will not pass.

If you ever need a CSR (Customer Service Representative), please visit the Official Fennux Sim, and use our “CSR Board” at the landing point.

You will clearly see which CSRs are available by noticing the “Click to Chat” button underneath their profile image. If you see “Offline”, it simply means they are not available to assist at this time.

From now on, the standard for getting help via a CSR is by visiting the Official Fennux Sim. If no one is online to help, you can click the bottom of the board to submit a ticket – which will be handled as soon as possible!

We have changed the “Hydrated Constructable Fantasy Home” into just the “Hydrated Fantasy Home”. It is no longer constructable, rather it’s the same type of home as all of our other hydrated homes. You buy it, and rez it – and it works like a home.

It’s still L$495 – the cheapest of our Hydrated Home options. And now it doesn’t take any time at all to turn it into a home.

You might be wondering why we’re taking away the “constructable” feature? In all honesty, we were having numerous complaints about it having issues building. We’d rather just offer a guaranteed working product instead of something that has repetitive issues for a number of customers.

If you already have the Constructable version, and you are not having issues with it – then that’s great to hear! However, if you find that you start having issues with it – send us a support ticket and we’ll take care of the situation for you.

We are having a contest where anyone can download our Fennux Silhouette PNG file, import it into Photoshop or Gimp or whatever your favorite Image Editing Software is, and then you can draw, paint bucket, brush, etc. on the Fennux Silhouette PNG file.

You do NOT have to be a 3D Texture Artist to submit an idea, you just need to know how to paint on a 2D surface!

It’s really that easy – get as creative as you want and once you’re done save the file (JPG/JPEG PREFERABLY), upload it to Second Life, make it Full Perm (mod,copy,trans) and send it to Daemon Blackflag in-world. Please only submit one entry!

Daemon and other members of Team Fennux will review your ideas and choose a winner. Then, Katharine Mcginnis will use her texturing expertise to recreate the winning conceptual idea and turn it into a real Fennux Coat!

We will not announce the winner until around the 1st of August – because that is when we intend to release the coat into the Wishing Well. Yes, the winner’s coat will be available in the Wishing Well as an LE for the entire month of August.

If you are not selected this first time, don’t worry! We are doing this as a test run – but we most likely will turn this into a very regular occurrence depending on how this goes.

Upon submitting your contest entry to us – Team Fennux becomes the sole owner of your idea, and we can use it as we see fit forever. This is traditional legal jargon, if we didn’t say this we couldn’t release your coat into the wild, and now we can!

If you are selected as a winner, we will send a one-time payment of L$5,000 to you, as well as a give you a free Fennux with the winning LE Coat on it. We’ll also throw in a dish of “4 Fennux for 4 Weeks” kibbles just to spice things up. So, good luck everyone. Many will enter, one will win.